BDD Contracts in the UK excluding London

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for BDD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BDD over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 300 215 177
Rank change year-on-year -85 -38 -28
Contract jobs citing BDD 85 261 442
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 1.14% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 1.27% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 182 293
10th Percentile £356 £363 £400
25th Percentile £430 £425 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% -0.99% +12.22%
75th Percentile £600 £585 £615
90th Percentile £683 £686 £675
UK median daily rate £533 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -11.17% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 8
10th Percentile - £61.75 £44.25
25th Percentile - £70.00 £45.94
Median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +34.26% +28.57%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £68.32
90th Percentile - - £76.64
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £65.54
% change year-on-year -22.41% +10.62% +58.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

BDD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,140 20,557 27,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 89.47% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,177 18,943
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,258 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the UK excluding London

BDD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BDD in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for BDD in the UK excluding London

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BDD in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for BDD in the UK excluding London

BDD
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -19 27 £550 +10.00% 31
North of England -33 26 £500 -11.11% 32
South West -25 17 £590 +18.00% 29
Yorkshire -15 13 £550 -15.38% 6
North West -4 10 £500 -3.85% 24
Scotland +15 6 £498 +8.97% 13
Midlands +12 6 £425 +13.33% 34
West Midlands +19 5 £450 +18.03% 26
North East +3 3 - - 2
Wales +22 2 £363 - 5
East Midlands +2 1 £398 +41.96% 8
East of England 0 1 £500 -8.59% 11
BDD
UK

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.88%) Drupal
2 4 (4.71%) Confluence
3 1 (1.18%) Appian
3 1 (1.18%) IIS
3 1 (1.18%) JBoss
3 1 (1.18%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (38.82%) AWS
2 24 (28.24%) Azure
3 12 (14.12%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (10.59%) GitHub
5 8 (9.41%) Serverless
6 6 (7.06%) BrowserStack
7 5 (5.88%) GCP
8 4 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.53%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (3.53%) Datadog
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.35%) CloudBees
10 2 (2.35%) Google Compute Engine
10 2 (2.35%) IaaS
10 2 (2.35%) PaaS
10 2 (2.35%) SaaS
10 2 (2.35%) Sauce Labs
11 1 (1.18%) Figma
11 1 (1.18%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.88%) HTTP
2 3 (3.53%) BGP
2 3 (3.53%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (3.53%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.12%) MySQL
1 12 (14.12%) NoSQL
2 11 (12.94%) MongoDB
3 10 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.53%) MariaDB
5 3 (3.53%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.35%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.18%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.18%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (30.59%) Jenkins
2 24 (28.24%) Git
2 24 (28.24%) Selenium
3 17 (20.00%) Cucumber
4 15 (17.65%) JIRA
5 12 (14.12%) Cypress.io
6 11 (12.94%) Postman
7 10 (11.76%) JMeter
7 10 (11.76%) WebDriver
8 7 (8.24%) Visual Studio
9 6 (7.06%) NUnit
10 5 (5.88%) Gatling
10 5 (5.88%) GitLab
10 5 (5.88%) Subversion
11 4 (4.71%) SpecFlow
12 3 (3.53%) Bitbucket
12 3 (3.53%) JUnit
12 3 (3.53%) Mockito
12 3 (3.53%) TeamCity
13 2 (2.35%) SoapUI
General
1 23 (27.06%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.76%) Finance
2 10 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.53%) Tech for Good
4 3 (3.53%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.18%) Banking
6 1 (1.18%) Electronics
6 1 (1.18%) Law
6 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.18%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 27 (31.76%) Developer
2 21 (24.71%) Senior
3 15 (17.65%) Test Engineer
4 14 (16.47%) Software Engineer
5 11 (12.94%) Java Developer
5 11 (12.94%) Senior Test Engineer
6 10 (11.76%) Test Automation Engineer
7 7 (8.24%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 6 (7.06%) Full Stack Developer
8 6 (7.06%) Full Stack Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Drupal Developer
9 5 (5.88%) Software Developer
10 4 (4.71%) Architect
10 4 (4.71%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) Lead
10 4 (4.71%) Scala Developer
10 4 (4.71%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.71%) Tester
11 3 (3.53%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (21.18%) React
2 15 (17.65%) .NET
3 14 (16.47%) AngularJS
3 14 (16.47%) REST
4 13 (15.29%) RESTful
5 12 (14.12%) Web Services
6 11 (12.94%) Kafka
7 10 (11.76%) CSS
7 10 (11.76%) GraphQL
8 9 (10.59%) Spring
9 7 (8.24%) ActiveMQ
9 7 (8.24%) HTML
9 7 (8.24%) Playwright
10 6 (7.06%) Node.js
11 5 (5.88%) Gherkin
11 5 (5.88%) Next.js
11 5 (5.88%) Sass
11 5 (5.88%) Spring Boot
12 4 (4.71%) JSON
13 3 (3.53%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.06%) Product Ownership
1 6 (7.06%) Public Cloud
1 6 (7.06%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.53%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.53%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.53%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.53%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.35%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.35%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.18%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.59%) Linux
2 6 (7.06%) Mac OS X
2 6 (7.06%) Unix
3 1 (1.18%) Android
3 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.18%) Windows
3 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (78.82%) Agile
2 62 (72.94%) TDD
3 44 (51.76%) CI/CD
3 44 (51.76%) Test Automation
4 28 (32.94%) DevOps
5 25 (29.41%) Software Engineering
6 24 (28.24%) Microservices
7 20 (23.53%) Full Stack Development
8 19 (22.35%) Scrum
9 16 (18.82%) Kanban
10 15 (17.65%) SDLC
11 13 (15.29%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (15.29%) Test Strategy
12 12 (14.12%) Manual Testing
12 12 (14.12%) Waterfall
13 10 (11.76%) Mentoring
14 8 (9.41%) Non-Functional Testing
14 8 (9.41%) Open Source
14 8 (9.41%) Performance Testing
14 8 (9.41%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 48 (56.47%) Java
2 33 (38.82%) JavaScript
3 27 (31.76%) SQL
4 17 (20.00%) Python
5 16 (18.82%) TypeScript
6 8 (9.41%) C#
6 8 (9.41%) Scala
7 7 (8.24%) Shell Script
8 6 (7.06%) Bash
8 6 (7.06%) Groovy
9 5 (5.88%) C++
9 5 (5.88%) Go
9 5 (5.88%) PHP
10 4 (4.71%) C
11 3 (3.53%) Perl
11 3 (3.53%) PowerShell
11 3 (3.53%) Ruby
11 3 (3.53%) T-SQL
12 2 (2.35%) VBA
12 2 (2.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (8.24%) Degree
4 5 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.71%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.35%) ISEB
6 2 (2.35%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.59%) Accessibility
2 7 (8.24%) QA
3 2 (2.35%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.18%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (25.88%) Docker
2 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.18%) Terminal Services
2 1 (1.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (22.35%) Kubernetes
2 13 (15.29%) Terraform
3 9 (10.59%) Ansible
4 5 (5.88%) Grafana
5 3 (3.53%) Nagios
5 3 (3.53%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.53%) Puppet
6 1 (1.18%) Kibana
6 1 (1.18%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (4.71%) Microsoft
1 4 (4.71%) Oracle
1 4 (4.71%) Splunk
2 3 (3.53%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (3.53%) Cisco
2 3 (3.53%) New Relic
2 3 (3.53%) TOWER Software
3 2 (2.35%) Google
3 2 (2.35%) Perfecto Mobile
4 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.18%) IBM
4 1 (1.18%) OpenText
4 1 (1.18%) Pega
4 1 (1.18%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.18%) SAP
4 1 (1.18%) VMware